The one-million milestone has been achieved less than two years after Starlink began taking pre-orders for the satellite broadband service in February 2021. Starlink originally cost $99 a month for the service and $499, plus tax, for the Starlink Kit, comprising a satellite dish terminal and a Wi-Fi router. As of September 2022, Starlink starts at $110 per month with a one-time hardware cost of $599. On Saturday, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 52 more Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit....

I also fear that, given distortion is one of its core métiers, Facebook believes in acting like it doesn’t care. It’s little surprise, then, that having changed its name to Meta and proclaimed itself the creator of Futureworld, Facebook has begun depicting what that world will be like. Please feel free to prostrate yourself on your most comfortable piece of furniture. This may hurt. Facebook has just released an ad based on a painting by a tax collector....

No admission of liability In the lead-up to 2015 app developers harvested personal data of millions of users and their Facebook friends without their consent. The ICO found that Facebook failed to sufficiently protect user’s personal information. It levied the maximum possible penalty the ICO could impose at that time. Under new data protection laws, passed in 2018, Facebook would have faced a maximum fine of up to £17 million for the same offence....

New York University (NYU) and Columbia University released a statement on Wednesday condemning the decision by Facebook, which decided to shut down the accounts of New York University researchers Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy Tuesday evening. In the statement, Edelson said they had been negotiating with Facebook for months over a research tool called Ad Observer. The tool is part of the work of NYU Cybersecurity for Democracy, where Edelson is the lead researcher and a PhD candidate in computer science at New York University Tandon School of Engineering....

When I was younger, I played a really grainy VR game in an old seaside arcade in England, and it seemed like the best thing in the world. I can still remember being immersed in this virtual street, rifle in hand, but I couldn’t wait until the smell of cotton candy and saltwater around me would become part of the experience. Now, I have a Playstation VR setup in my home, and my sister asked me for VR game recommendations for her two boys....

The company reported a revenue of $74.3 million for Q3 alongside a non-GAAP EPS of $0.21. The figures beat Wall Street estimates of a $0.02 EPS and a revenue estimate of $71 million. Active buyers grew to 4.1 million, compared to 3.1 million seen during the same quarter last year. Spend per buyer reached a high of $234 compared to the $195 the company saw in September 2020. The company acquired freelancer management platform Stoke Talent for $95 million last week as a way to expand its offerings to provide more tools to larger businesses....

The research paper [PDF] found that prior to the pandemic, about 8% of people regularly worked from home. These people were most likely female, older than those who did not work from home, worked part-time, provided care for children and people with disability, and lived in regional or remote areas. This percentage, however, increased to 40%, even when stay-at-home orders eased in early 2021. “While this percentage may not always remain so high it is inevitable that more Australians will work from home,” Productivity Commission chair Michael Brennan said....

According to the telco, Berejiklian’s role will help Optus in “unlocking a greater share” of the enterprise, business, and institutional markets by overseeing each portfolio globally. This will also mean current Optus Business managing director Libby Roy and Optus Enterprise managing director Chris Mitchell will remain in their existing roles and report to Berejiklian. Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin described Berejiklian as a “gamechanger” for helping Optus become “Australia’s most loved everyday brand”....

Pemble said the company’s consolidated revenue increased 53% over the prior year and exceeded $1.3 billion, with an operating income of $371 million and a GAAP EPS of $1.64.. The CEO added that the company expected a revenue of $4.9 billion this year. Revenue in the fitness segment grew by 40% to $413 million, driven in part by interest in the two running watches that were launched in Q2 in honor of Global Running Day as well as updates to other watches....

The predictions ranged from potential legislation to how the market for certain technologies will change from now until 2025. Gartner analysts predicted weaponized OT environments will result in human casualties by 2025 due to malware that they believe will spread at “wirespeeds.” The analysts say by that time, cybercriminals will shift from business disruption to physical harm, leading to regulations placing liability on CEOs. For 2023, Gartner expects 75% of the world to be covered under some kind of privacy law with built-in subject rights requests and consent....

ZAGG currently offers one case and one screen protector for the Google Pixel 6 and a single case for the Pixel 6 Pro. We may see further releases as time continues, but it is nice to have options from ZAGG to get us started. Also:Google Pixel 6 Pro review: Google’s best smartphone yet, but is it enough? Gear4 Havana ZAGG offers the Gear4 Havana case for both the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro for a price of $29....

A recent slew of generative artificial intelligence applications like image-creators, chatbots, and now voice-cloners are being leveraged by cybercriminals to dupe victims. In this case, highly convincing voice emulation technology is now being abused by cybercriminals to spoof countless unsuspecting victims and defraud them for millions of dollars.All AI generative voice software needs is a brief snippet of a person’s voice to convincingly reproduce it, after which a scammer can call a victim, and pretend to be someone close to them....

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Although it’s still summer and the weather is warm, it won’t be long before you feel like the holidays are coming at you quickly. And they usually arrive with more food and less exercise than usual. So if you’d like to get ahead of the curve a bit, you can get expert diet and fitness coaching from The Fitness App by Jillian Michaels. Lifetime subscriptions are available for $149.99 or 66 percent off for new users....

Between the bundle’s two memberships, you get lifetime access to more than 1,800 self-paced courses. Over 800 of them are included with Stone River eLearning. This lifetime subscription can help you develop skills that will qualify you for lucrative tech industry positions, such as programming, graphic design, game development, and iOS. You’ll get VIP perks as well, such as a personal learning guide, a 1-year subscription to CodeMag Skills, unlimited eBooks, and certifications that will polish up your resume....

It admits the language it previously used was “overly broad”. “We explicitly permit dual-use security technologies and content related to research into vulnerabilities, malware, and exploits,” says Michael Hanley, chief security officer of GitHub, in a blogpost. SEE: Network security policy (TechRepublic Premium) Dual-use technologies include tools like the Metasploit framework and Mimikatz, which are used by defenders, ransomware attackers and state-sponsored threat actors to compromise networks and move around networks after they’re compromised....

With codeSpark Academy, kids can learn computer science fundamentals in a fun way with puzzles, games, story creation, and much more. So new users will definitely want to grab the codeSpark Academy Sibling Bundle, which gives two children unlimited three-month access for the price of one. Kids who are four-to-nine years old can learn programming basics with coding challenges, creative tools, and much more. They’ll learn about concepts such as Boolean logic, conditional statements, sequencing, loops, and a whole lot more....

The regulator is concerned that iOS and Android, combined with Apple’s App Store and Google Play, could be harming consumers in a wide range of ways, primarily by stifling competition in digital markets through their outsized control over these gateways. The CMA is not just concerned about apps but all the IoT devices in consumers’ homes that are controlled by smartphones, from TVs to smart speakers. “Apple and Google control the major gateways through which people download apps or browse the web on their mobiles – whether they want to shop, play games, stream music or watch TV,” Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA said....

That’s because one of the most common ways cyber criminals breach networks is by using phishing attacks to steal passwords or simply by guessing weak ones. Either way, so long as they are using a real password many systems will assume it’s safe to give them access. MFA creates and additional barrier to attackers because it requires the user to additionally verify that the login attempt was really made by them....

The hacker group said the Iranian government’s brutal crackdown on journalists and protesters spurred the cyberattack. On Friday, Black Reward said it had hacked the email systems of Iran’s Nuclear Power Production and Development Company, and siphoned 50 GB of data — over 100,000 messages from 324 accounts. The group threatened to release the data if the government didn’t release people arrested during the protests and political prisoners. Iranian officials had downplayed the group’s threats, claiming it was a media stunt....